What was in the box?
Didn't get what that was.
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TNT detonator
shareThanks. That makes sense. The stranger character was selling his own kin's revolt to the Turks.
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Oh, that's a MacGuffin.
(Who else believed when he opened the box we would get only an odd green light, and never be shown what was in it.)
It does end up making the revolving plot pieces fit nicely at the end though.
I think you find out that the stranger has sold out his own kin when he becomes a bandit in the first place after being forced out of his guide job by the railroad. Assuming we can trust his story.
Do you think Theeb shoots him because he calls Theeb his son and Theeb realizes he might get stuck with him if this type of life? Or, do you think he does it because of the way the stranger just callously sells off the englishman's possessions, or a combination of the two?
I think it was clear the boy was startled and enraged that he was awarded money for the booty of his own brother's murder. It was all just survival, being with the bandit, but that moment clearly he snapped. Very well done on screen. The idea, but also the timing of the editing was, for me, about perfect. I was completely in the moment.
I believed the bandit's story, and had empathy, but not enough to justify murder and highway robbery. Black-hat dies.
Spit on. A superb film, dreamlike in places then like a nightmare in others. The tension, for such a simply shot film, was wonderful.
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we might surmise the detonator was part of the gear to sabotage the railroad, which was an asset of the ottomans.
the irony is that the bandit, who betrayed the arab nationalists, was aiding the same forces which dominated arabia politically, and had robbed him of his livelihood (not that the british would have done, or did, anything much differently).